Improvement in clothes-pins



i I r manner herein represented and described.

@gaine ftatrs etmt* @fitta WlLLlA-M lAlflElSON, OE LOWELL, MASSAGHUSE'FS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE 'l. GOMINS, OF SAME PLAGE.

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TO LL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PATTERSON, of the city of Lowell, and county of Middlesex, State of Massa'- ehusetts, have invented a new and improved Clothes-Pin and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, refer'- ence being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this speciication.

- The present invention relates to the ordinary clothes-pin formed of a block or piece of wood, with two arms; and it consists in splitting each of the said prongs, for their entire length or nearly so, across their width, thus forming a double-armed prong of each of the usual prongs, whereby the lexibility from their strength or weakening'them in the least degree,

of the prongs is much increased without detraeting as will be obvious from the following detailed description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying plate of drawings, in whichl Figure 1 is a side elevation of a clothes-pin made according `to the present improvements.

Figure 2, a transverse section of the same taken in the plane of the line a; zr, iig. l.`

A, in the drawings, represents a clothes-pin of thc ordinary form, with its body or main or solid portion Bprovided with two parallel prongs or armsv C C of the requisite length, which prongs are split into two prongs across their width and for their length, or nearly so, als plainly shown in the drawing, means of which their iiexibility is greatly increased, while at the same time their strength is not materiallyrif at all lessened, as is obvious without further explanation, the importance of. which is self-evident to all withont any particular mention herein.

What- I claim as new, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is-l The arrangement of the split teeth C C in combination with the body B, constructed and operating in the parallel prongs or The above specification of my invention' signed by'me this` v day of n v 1866.

WM. PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

WM. C. FRENCH, Joni. Pownns. 

